Chief Creep in Charge, moments ago, in his press conference: “What about the alt-left that came charging [at neo-Nazis and KKK], “don’t they have some semblance of guilt?”
This is the risk with this bullshit, and why thinking people should not use an equivocal term for even the most maddening of non-Nazis because they piss them off.
ALT-RIGHT MEANS NAZI. It’s too bad that this marketing ploy has worked, but it has. And it came first. So to call anyone “alt-left” creates a mirror for motherfucking goddamn Nazis. Come up with a new way to shit on left-wing enemies. The dictionary is pretty big, and there are lots of ways to call people you don’t like assholes without making them equivalent to the modern Twitter Gestapo.
“So we have Right Nazis™ on one side, and Left Nazis™ on the other side, so what am I supposed to do?” Whatabout, whatabout, whatabout abounds.
Drop this goddamn term.
Make Nazis the Worst Again.